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CP cards are leading providers of plastic membership cards. Using their design services or providing ideas you already have in mind, they can create a bespoke membership card all your customers will be proud to carry in their wallet. The cards can feature unique images, your brand name, logo, individual membership numbers, signature strips and any other feature you require. This can include embossing and magnetic strips.

The printing options can be as exclusive to you as your services will be to customers. They provide detailed quotations for a range of order sizes and promise a fast turnaround time of just 5 working days.

Many start-up businesses originate with the idea to provide a service to either the general public or a niche market. For niche markets, normally there needs to be a way to clearly identify clientele as the services are exclusive to them alone. Therefore membership cards are a primary order when stocking up on essential items for the opening of your new business.

Elite Membership Cards

Exclusive nightclubs, premium priced services and recreation clubs are all common businesses that utilise membership cards. They not only enable you to clearly identify who your customers are when they enter but they also give the owners of the card a sense of importance and value. That they are part of an exclusive and sometimes elite club if they are paying a substantial amount for your services.

We had a customer email us today with the following request for plastic cards.

I have a customer waiting for plastic full colour double sided business cards. The ones he has had done before is encapsulated with plastic with round corners. do you do trade prices? if so can you send me some prices for different qualities etc. they need them quite urgent

The customer just wants prices for now. Can I have a price for 250, 500 and 1000. We normally only do litho printing. Its an old customer from 5 years ago coming back to us with all there printing so I’m hoping to get the right prices for them. They own 3 restaurants so its quite a lot of work for us.

We are busy discussing options with the customer to find the best solution at the best price.

Today we receive an unusual request. It was for just doing a plastic business cards design, and the request was from China.

Hi,

We are interested in using your company to design our business cards. We would like frosted/semi transparent plastic card and using a gold stamp technique for the logo and maybe other parts. I have already got a printers ready to do this work. I live in China, so much easier for me to do it here. Please take a look at our website to get an idea of what we are about.

How long would the design take? When can you do? And how much please?

Thanks

We replied with

Hello,

Thanks you for your enquiry however we do not ship out of the UK.

Kind regards

Catherine

Their reply was.

Hi,

Please I am only looking for design work. No shipping required, only email adobe files.

Thanks

Hi,

Sorry we are a printing company, we offer basic design only to go with the cards we produce.

It sounds like you need a graphic design company not a printing company.

We received a rush order late yesterday for some plastic cards. The customer emailed the artwork over and said a usual it is a rush order.

We are very cautious with rush orders because if issues arise there is precious little (if any) time to fix them but we, as always do our best

The customers artwork was not sent to the correct specification. Our studio advised him of this and then proceeded to fix the issues as quickly as possible (exactly what we do not need with a rush order)

We then emailed a photo-realistic proof to the customer for approval.

He received it and approved it.

Today we received the following email – he approved the email proof on his mobile phone!

ARGH!

PLEASE USE A PROPER COMPUTER TO VIEW YOUR PROOFS ON

Hi,

Back home and on proper computer now.

I expect it’s too late in the day to do anything about it, but I just noticed on the proof mock-ups you sent over that the black boarder surrounding the front image and the back images appears larger than on the examples I sent through.

I sent through an example multi-image which showed how the cards should look when cut-out, and then individual “master” images where I had cleaned up the boarder and left a touch more bleed.

I just want to check that you are using the master images, and scaling them down in size to match the example cut-out images.

If it’s too late in the day, then don’t worry and I’ll go with what looks like the slightly wider boarder shown in your mock-ups. BUT, if we do have time then may be you could check this for me. (but if you need to fix slightly, please res-down from master files rather than expand the smaller files you may have created in order to preserve the crispness and clarity of the text and images.)

I hope the above makes sense !

Best wishes,

We are now trying to decide what to do with the order as we don’t want to print it and dispatch it to the customer if they won’t be happy with it.

He doesn’t have time for a postal proof due to his deadline which would ensure all is ok with his cards.

Do we proceed with the order or cancel it and refund the customers money in full?

Just a quick message about deadlines, we appreciate that sometimes cards are needed quickly, sometimes very quickly!

We had an enquiry today asking for both frosted plastic cards and satin black plastic cards for Wednesday this week. We said unfortunately this does not give us enough time as we would need to dispatch tomorrow. They came straight back saying Thursday at the very latest, our reply was yes this is achievable.

We experience this situation each and every week, where someone does have a genuine deadline but they take a day off just in case. Which sometimes means we can not meet the deadline we have been presented with!

Anyhow, I will get to the point…..if you have a deadline for an order, please can you provide the actual latest you can receive the cards, we do where ever possible dispatch the order sooner. You could even say, for example, absolute deadline to receive the cards is Friday however Thursday would be preferred (we would also prefer to get them to you sooner if we can).